2004-02-28 (Saturday)

by havoc

Satellite TV guy came today and said we had to put the dish on a big
pole in the middle of the yard, or chainsaw a bunch of trees; time to
fall back to Comcast…

IBM laptop support is impressive: laptop hard disk died, I called late
morning, they had me a new one the next morning. Didn’t have to send
the old one back, didn’t have to argue. I’m now using the 2.6 kernel
on my new drive.

Seth, Jonathan, and Federico are really rescuing the file selector
situation at the last minute. Those guys rock.

Encouraging signs on open source Java in the news this week; this
would be fantastic for GNOME and free software overall, uniting all
the not-Microsoft platforms into a single juggernaut. I mailed
everyone I could think of with a quick .02 that we need not only open
source but also GPL-compatible, so we can really use Java throughout
the OS.